How much revenue did EarthRoyale make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did EarthRoyale sell?

Q: How many copies did EarthRoyale sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 179 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$40k before Steam's cut; from 179 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid EarthRoyale and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including EarthRoyale's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 165k–1.8M

best case 2.0M (Victoria 3)

Games like EarthRoyale

A typical game among these

≈ 165k–1.8M copies

≈ $727k–$21.6M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Victoria 3 at ≈ 1.6M–2.5M copies, ≈ $21.4M–$57.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 332 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Political Sim (7 of 8) and Grand Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Grand Strategy + Economy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Imperator: Rome 2019	Est. copies ≈ 773k–1.3M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.5M–$22.8M after Steam's cut $15.5M–$35.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Mixed	StrategyGrand Strategy
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Victoria 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.5M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $21.4M–$57.4M after Steam's cut $38.8M–$88.4M before Steam's cut	$49.99	63k reviews Mixed	Grand StrategyEconomy
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